As I looked back to my previous Slice of Life posts, I realized that this is only the second time participating in the March event. In my mind, there had been at least two years, but memories are not always reliable. Going back through my blog posts, there were a few Tuesday posts in 2014 and then a post every day of March in 2015 with this introduction:
After ten years, many things in that list are still true, but I no longer run (following a rock climbing accident that required knee surgery) and I don't take many photographs nowadays. In case you are wondering, I would add rock climber to the list because I have returned to that in spite of the accident, but running is no longer a comfortable thing with a slightly wonky knee.
I would also have to add language learner. We had our first Korean high school student living with us during my first SOL month in 2015, but I had no idea that about three years later, I would be practicing Korean and getting ready for my first trip to Korea to meet his family. Following that trip, we would host another student from Korea for three entire school years and I would go on to have many, many Korean lessons in hopes of one day meeting her family. Currently, I watch K-dramas and do a little studying to maintain what I've learned, but have pulled back a little because learning two languages at once is confusing for my brain.
Last fall I started working at a dual-immersion Spanish/English elementary school and am trying to learn Spanish as quickly as possible. Every week there are a few more words that stick in my brain, but it seems that I also lose a few words too. See previous sentence at the beginning about memories and reliability. ;)
All this to say, I guess this makes me a fairly new slicer and I'm glad to be here again after so many years. I still recognize a lot of names so some of you have been doing this for a long time. Thanks for sticking around.
Welcome back to the SOLSC! I resonated with so much of your post. Librarian here, working at a dual language IB-PYP school (not immersion), having to learn Spanish on the fly as I was put on the specials rotation a year and a half ago. I have a hard time with language sticking, too! For awhile, I was attempting Japanese out of respect for my son-in-law, but his English is far, far better than I think my Japanese ever will be.
ReplyDeleteThanks! I am lucky that I am teaching in the library in English as part of their immersion in that language, but some of the students answer in Spanish and of course a lot of conversations happen in Spanish throughout the day so speed is of the essence. It's fun, but challenging for sure.
DeleteI liked your post and learning a new language is challenging and fun.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by and reading.
DeleteWelcome back! I love the comparison of your identity 10 years ago to who you have become--and how much has stayed the same. I know there are a lot of stories to be told in between!
ReplyDeleteVery true! As I was looking back at posts from 2015 I realized that a lot has happened in ten years. Thanks for reading.
DeleteWelcome back! I loved reading the list of all the ways you described yourself 10 years ago--and loved that the final word was "writer". It was fun to hear about what has changed from your list and what has stayed the same. I look forward to reading more of your writing this month!
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and I am so happy to be part of the community again.
DeleteI really enjoyed this reflection on your very first slice for the daily challenge you completed in 2015. It feels like that was just a couple of years ago to me! It's so interesting to reflect on our identities and interests from times past. I find it comforting and hopeful that we take some pieces with us always and we also develop new interests.
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